Quotes About Conflict

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb.

How quickly all the advantages of technological civilisation are wiped out by a domestic squabble. At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that long after we had managed to send men to the moon and aeroplanes to Australasia, we would still have trouble knowing how to tolerate ourselves, forgive our loved ones and apologise for our tantrums?

Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back.

Hate is the hidden script in the letter of love; its foundations are shared with its opposite. The woman seduced by her partner's way of kissing her neck, turning the pages of a book, or telling a joke watches irritation collect at precisely these junctures. It is as if the end of love is already contained in its beginning, the ingredients of love's collapse eerily foreshadowed by those of its creation.

We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might some time or other become our enemies'.

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time, perhaps even a lot of it – inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a light bulb.

Prejudice and ethnic strife feed off abstraction.

A person cannot be at once a libertine and a married Romantic, however compelling both paradigms might be.

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Without patience for negotiation, there is bitterness: anger that has forgotten where it came from.

A man has been arrested in Epsom for signalling to German planes with a lighted cigarette

Never be prime minister at the start of a war, Nessie [..] The man that lead you into it isn't the one to lead you out of it.

as I think Hebbel says, in a good play everyone is right.

You empower what you fight. You withdraw power from what you release.

The list of ways that others bother us is endless.

no es necesario que sufras para tener derecho a sentirte bien, como tampoco es necesario que te pelees para disfrutar del sexo.

When love and fear meet, only love remains.

You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them killing each other for a percentage.

Tar-Aiym?" interrupted Kitten. "I know that word. Peot claims to be a Tar-Aiym?" But Philip ignored her.

was at once appalled and impressed. Personally, he could not recall having read or heard of an instance where a human economist had resolved a disagreement with a fellow academician by ripping out the other's tendons and ligaments.

Two surviving human beings on the entire planet, Ruslan thought, and they can't stand each other. A fitting metaphor for the entire species.

That weapon—is mine." Finn all but snarled his reply. "Come and get it.

It was evident from both Hux's tone and body language that he held no love for the newcomer. The feeling was mutual; neither took pains to hide his contempt.

I'm not a hero. I'm not Resistance. I'm a stormtrooper.